Wednesday 3rd March 2010, 16.00 - 17.00, Room G.107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.
Tea and coffee from 3.30 pm.

Paul Baxter (University of Leeds)
Statistical epidemiology - the use of observational and audit data in applied health research

Making improved use of routinely recorded patient data for research (e.g. by linking together different data sources, whilst respecting issues of confidentiality and consent) is at the heart of the NHS Connecting for Health "Research Capability Programme" (see http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/research). In this talk I will describe some of the statistical challenges posed by such non-randomised data, illustrated by our experience at Leeds of working with the Myocardial Ischemia National Audit Project (MINAP) Database, the Vascular Society’s National Vascular Database (NVD) and the Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust’s Stroke Database.